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Title:  Information Gigabyte Artist:  Flint Glass, Telepherique - Various Artists Label:  Angle.Rec Format:  CD Price:  € 16.90   Mp3 samples: none

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Our present society progresses and changes at an incredible speed. The amount of information we have access to or that is proposed to us is way greater than it used to be, even 10-15 years ago, thanks for the most part to the rise of Internet and the tremendous pace of progress in existing or new technologies. Researchers of UC Berkeley (Peter Lyman/Hal R. Varian/James Dunn/Aleksey Strygin/Kirsten Swearingen) found that ÔÕthe world's total yearly production of print, film, optical, and magnetic content would require roughly 1.5 billion gigabyte of storage. This is the equivalent of 250 megabytes per person for each man, woman, and child on earthÕÕ. One can only imagine what it will be like in 10 or 20 years from nowÉWe are submerged in information, overwhelmed by it, the overabundance of information creates a potential or actual ÔÕblack holeÕÕ, hence the birth of what we shall call the ÔÕfear of informationÕÕÉWriters and futurologists Alvin and Heidi Toffler were the first to imagine the consequences of the paradigm change associated with the advent of the information era, in all spheres of human activity; the famous 1970 book, ÔFuture ShockÕ, studies the acceleration of progress and its effects on every individualÕs psychological structure. According to this book, an individual submitted to too much change in a too-limited time frame would experience stress and disorientation. This would then lead to various acute physical and mental disturbances, called "future shock", accompanied by a feeling of helplessness and inadequacy...Our mind, physiology and social structures are not able to keep up with the rate at which change happens, or with the amount of new data available, on a constant basisÉWhile wandering through those infinite mazes of information, wading through a vast ocean of choices, the individual has to select what is best for him and truly choose and discover himself!

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